[GRASS5] Re: gis.m

[Michael Barton]

This is what I was thinking too.

Michael
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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:33:06 +0000
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers at umn.edu>, devel grass <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] Re: gis.m
> 
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> The ­e flag in d.what.vect invokes a separate program, the ³form library²
>> which includes a TclTk form (and maybe associated C-code? I¹m not sure on
>> this).
> 
> The form utility ($GISBASE/etc/form/form) is a custom Tcl/Tk
> interpreter, i.e. a mix of C and Tcl/Tk. The C code mostly relates to
> interfacing with the GRASS database libraries.
> 
> The form library includes functions for starting and stopping the form
> utility, as well as for generating HTML forms from database tables.
> 
> It may be possible to run the form utility directly from gis.m to
> provide functionality similar to "d.what.vect -e", although it would
> probably be better to bypass it altogether and do the database access
> from Tcl via the db.* utilities.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>